The Woke Cult
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Agenda
Agenda
There is a new cult in American society, one that looks very much like it’s the genuine thing. Welcome back to the Reformed Rant where I talk about the most pressing theological, philosophical, and social issues of the day from a distinctly reformed Christian perspective.
Cult Defined
Cult Defined
Human Flourishing
Human Flourishing
Loving Neighbors
Loving Neighbors
The Poor
The Poor
The Gospel According to the Woke Cult
The Gospel According to the Woke Cult
The Kingdom of God According to Woke Cult
The Kingdom of God According to Woke Cult
The Deadly Sins of Wokeism
The Deadly Sins of Wokeism
Covetousness
Greed
Envy
Jealousy
Idolatry
Discontentment
Cult Defined
Cult Defined
A cult is a group or movement held together by a shared commitment to a charismatic leader or ideology. It has a belief system that has the answers to all of life's questions and offers a special solution to be gained only by following the leader's rules.
You’re not black if you don’t vote democrat.
You aren’t loving your neighbor if you do not march with us and riot with us and commit acts of violence against us.
You cannot be for a legal immigration policy AND love your neighbor.
You do not love Jesus if you do not fight to end racism of all kinds, including systemic racism.
If you are white, you are a racist even if you don’t know it.
Human Flourishing
Human Flourishing
Human flourishing is defined as an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her own such efforts.
31 I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Loving Neighbors
Loving Neighbors
It means real neighbors - people in your life.
It means helping them when they need legitimate help.
It is a means to an end, not the end in itself. The help is always accompanied with the gospel. It is to give them to truth, not to make you feel righteous or like a good person.
It is to demonstrate light from darkness. It shows the power of the gospel to radically change a person’s heart.
It will not get the attention of the general masses. But God does use it to get the attention of those he is saving, those whom he is calling to himself.
The Poor
The Poor
4 “However, there will be no poor among you, since the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, 5 if only you listen obediently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
11 “For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.’
See also Matt. 26:11; Mark 14:7; and John 12:8.
You will always have the poor with you.
8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
9 A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
10 For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
7 “The Lord makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts.
2 “You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice; 3 nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.
1 “You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2 “You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice; 3 nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.
However one views the Christian POV with regard to the poor, it must reflect the entire Bible’s teaching on the subject and not just a verse or parable here or there in isolation.
The Gospel According to the Woke Cult
The Gospel According to the Woke Cult
God is on the side of the poor and oppressed. The Bible reveals a God of justice who acted to liberate his oppressed people. God’s people are the poor and the oppressed. They enjoy a privileged place in God’s kingdom.
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are oppressed,
The Woke cult interprets this passage in a physical sense rather than the spiritual sense in which it was obviously intended.
The poor
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The oppressed
38 “You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
The captive
26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
The blind
4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Why the poor?
27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, 28 and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, 29 so that no man may boast before God. 30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
The Kingdom of God according to the Woke Cult
The Kingdom of God according to the Woke Cult
Moltmann explains in the first essay "The Diaconal Church in the Context of the Kingdom of God" that the poor are the subjects of the Kingdom of God, and the poor are not the objects of charity, love or generosity that comes from rich in the Kingdom of God. The poor are not only the heirs of the Kingdom of God, because they possess it here and now, as the evangelist said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God" (Luke 6:20 NRSV). The practical meaning is that the rich are not tasked with helping the poor out of their charity, as if the rich were the subjects of the Kingdom of God, instead the rich are tasked with becoming like the poor, and having solidarity with the poor, to become fellow subjects of the Kingdom of God.
This is exactly the view of the kingdom of God being espoused by the Woke cult that is making it’s way into evangelical churches.
The basic problem with Moltmann’s Theology of Hope and Woke Cult kingdom theology is that it suffers from an over-realized eschatology. It is literally “kingdom now” thinking. It is very consistent with the heresy known as dominion theology or as some have termed it: reconstructionism. (Rushdoony)
Dictionary of Theological Terms A Reconstructionist’s Definition
He takes seriously the Bible’s commands to the godly to take dominion in the earth. This is the goal of the gospel and the Great Commission.
This theology contends that the church takes over to shape society, politics, and policy in a way that establishes the kingdom of God on earth here and now. This theology is woven into the very fabric of the Woke cult. It is the Christian version of classic Marxism. This is the tower of Babel all over again.
The Deadly Sins of the Woke Cult
The Deadly Sins of the Woke Cult
Covetousness - a strong desire for something.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
2. Greed - a desire to possess more and more material possessions.
3 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;
3. Envy - to desire the advantages that belong to another person. (privilege)
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the Lord always.
4. Jealousy - a particularly strong feeling of resentment against someone
13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.
5. Idolatry - the worship of idols. (idols exist first in ideas)
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
6. Discontentment - to be dissatisfied with one’s circumstances. To be content is to be sufficient or adequate for a particular purpose, with the implication of leading to satisfaction.
8 If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.
8 Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion,
These are the necessary conditions for the survival of the Woke Cult.
Privilege is unjust.
That more white people make more $ than some black people is unjust.
That more white people have more wealth than some black people is unjust.
White people are inherently and unavoidably racist.
Evangelical pastors are doing everything they can to convince Christians that they must fight for the rights of God-hating pagans. These people are fornicators, drug abusers, violent murderers, homosexuals, transgender sociopaths, liars, thieves, and on and on I could go. It is not the mission of the church to shape society.
Our mission and duty as the church is NOT to fight for the rights of pagans. It is to offer the pagans the only true hope they have for true life and peace: Christ.
16 There are six things which the Lord hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.
Haughty Eyes: to be lifted up, arrogant, think highly of oneself. It is an incredibly arrogant thing to consider oneself able to indict another person for the sin of racism without ever even met that person?
Lying tongue: to call the justified shooting of a criminal “murder” is to bear false witness. This is a lying tongue for political expediency.
Hands that shed innocent blood: riots, looting, and violence.
A heart that devises wicked plans: there is little doubt that the violent riots and protests that have been such an integral part of the Woke cult this year is the product of careful planning. This the Lord hates.
Feet that run rapidly to evil:
7 Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
This the Lord hates.
Police shoot a man charging them with a knife and the Woke cult burns down sections of Philadelphia. This the Lord hates.
A false witness who utters lies: when Woke cult advocates and leaders employ such philosophies as CRT to witness to the truth of states of affairs, it makes them false witnesses. When they paint a new Jesus, it makes them false witnesses. When they promote to sainthood men like MLK, Jr., it makes them false witnesses. When they manipulate statistics and call it evidence of systemic racism, it makes them false witness who utter lies. This the Lord hates.
The one who spreads strife among brothers: one who dispatches, sends, commissions causes controversy and dissensions among brothers.
Setting up a world where black people are constantly reminded of the past so that they will continue to artificially make more out of current events than is there is no doubt stirring discord and disharmony between brothers. To lay sin upon someone who didn’t commit the sin and then convince another party that he or she is guilty is heinous and ungodly behavior. This the Lord hates.